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Describing the silliness and 'feminine fatuity' of many popular books by lady novelists, George Eliot perfectly skewers the formulaic yet bestselling works that dominated her time, with their loveably flawed heroines. She also examines the great women writers of France and their enrichment of the culture, and the varying qualities of literary translations.
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Describing the silliness and 'feminine fatuity' of many popular books by lady novelists, George Eliot perfectly skewers the formulaic yet bestselling works that dominated her time, with their loveably flawed heroines. She also examines the great women writers of France and their enrichment of the culture, and the varying qualities of literary translations.
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Silly novels by Lady Novelists
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Describing the silliness and 'feminine fatuity' of many popular books by lady novelists, George Eliot perfectly skewers the formulaic yet bestselling works that dominated her time, with their loveably flawed heroines. She also examines the great women writers of France and their enrichment of the culture, and the varying qualities of literary translations.
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Describing the silliness and 'feminine fatuity' of many popular books by lady novelists, George Eliot perfectly skewers the formulaic yet bestselling works that dominated her time, with their loveably flawed heroines. She also examines the great women writers of France and their enrichment of the culture, and the varying qualities of literary translations.
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Architecture and the imaginary
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Can't and won't
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Her stories may be literal one-liners: the entirety of “Bloomington” reads, “Now that I have been here for a little while, I can say with confidence that I have never been here before.” Or they may be lengthier investigations of the havoc wreaked by the most mundane disruptions to routine: in “A Small Story About a Small Box of Chocolates,” a professor receives a gift of(...)
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Her stories may be literal one-liners: the entirety of “Bloomington” reads, “Now that I have been here for a little while, I can say with confidence that I have never been here before.” Or they may be lengthier investigations of the havoc wreaked by the most mundane disruptions to routine: in “A Small Story About a Small Box of Chocolates,” a professor receives a gift of(...)
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Can't and won't
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Her stories may be literal one-liners: the entirety of “Bloomington” reads, “Now that I have been here for a little while, I can say with confidence that I have never been here before.” Or they may be lengthier investigations of the havoc wreaked by the most mundane disruptions to routine: in “A Small Story About a Small Box of Chocolates,” a professor receives a gift of thirty-two small chocolates and is paralyzed by the multitude of options she imagines for their consumption. The stories may appear in the form of letters of complaint; they may be extracted from Flaubert’s correspondence; or they may be inspired by the author’s own dreams, or the dreams of friends. What does not vary throughout Can’t and Won’t, Lydia Davis’s fifth collection of stories, is the power of her finely honed prose. Davis is sharply observant; she is wry or witty or poignant. Above all, she is refreshing. Davis writes with bracing candor and sly humor about the quotidian, revealing the mysterious, the foreign, the alienating, and the pleasurable within the predictable patterns of daily life.
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Her stories may be literal one-liners: the entirety of “Bloomington” reads, “Now that I have been here for a little while, I can say with confidence that I have never been here before.” Or they may be lengthier investigations of the havoc wreaked by the most mundane disruptions to routine: in “A Small Story About a Small Box of Chocolates,” a professor receives a gift of thirty-two small chocolates and is paralyzed by the multitude of options she imagines for their consumption. The stories may appear in the form of letters of complaint; they may be extracted from Flaubert’s correspondence; or they may be inspired by the author’s own dreams, or the dreams of friends. What does not vary throughout Can’t and Won’t, Lydia Davis’s fifth collection of stories, is the power of her finely honed prose. Davis is sharply observant; she is wry or witty or poignant. Above all, she is refreshing. Davis writes with bracing candor and sly humor about the quotidian, revealing the mysterious, the foreign, the alienating, and the pleasurable within the predictable patterns of daily life.
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Réunissant des poèmes inédits en français tirés de ses plus grands recueils (tels que Poésie en forme de rose) et des poèmes issus de manuscrits retrouvés, le deuxième volume de cette anthologie de référence forme le reflet objectif de l'oeuvre poétique de Pasolini. Un ouvrage-somme pour mieux comprendre cet artiste protéiforme qui luttait contre l'hypocrisie, les(...)
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Réunissant des poèmes inédits en français tirés de ses plus grands recueils (tels que Poésie en forme de rose) et des poèmes issus de manuscrits retrouvés, le deuxième volume de cette anthologie de référence forme le reflet objectif de l'oeuvre poétique de Pasolini. Un ouvrage-somme pour mieux comprendre cet artiste protéiforme qui luttait contre l'hypocrisie, les(...)
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La persécution: une anthologie, 1954-1970
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Réunissant des poèmes inédits en français tirés de ses plus grands recueils (tels que Poésie en forme de rose) et des poèmes issus de manuscrits retrouvés, le deuxième volume de cette anthologie de référence forme le reflet objectif de l'oeuvre poétique de Pasolini. Un ouvrage-somme pour mieux comprendre cet artiste protéiforme qui luttait contre l'hypocrisie, les bien-pensants, la société consumériste, l'académisme... et contre lui-même.
La persécution: une anthologie, 1954-1970
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Réunissant des poèmes inédits en français tirés de ses plus grands recueils (tels que Poésie en forme de rose) et des poèmes issus de manuscrits retrouvés, le deuxième volume de cette anthologie de référence forme le reflet objectif de l'oeuvre poétique de Pasolini. Un ouvrage-somme pour mieux comprendre cet artiste protéiforme qui luttait contre l'hypocrisie, les bien-pensants, la société consumériste, l'académisme... et contre lui-même.
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December 2014
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Architecture and the imaginary
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Dans une France assez proche de la nôtre, un homme s'engage dans la carrière universitaire. Peu motivé par l'enseignement, il s'attend à une vie ennuyeuse mais calme, protégée des grands drames historiques. Cependant les forces en jeu dans le pays ont fissuré le système politique jusqu'à provoquer son effondrement. Cette implosion sans soubresauts, sans vraie révolution,(...)
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Dans une France assez proche de la nôtre, un homme s'engage dans la carrière universitaire. Peu motivé par l'enseignement, il s'attend à une vie ennuyeuse mais calme, protégée des grands drames historiques. Cependant les forces en jeu dans le pays ont fissuré le système politique jusqu'à provoquer son effondrement. Cette implosion sans soubresauts, sans vraie révolution,(...)
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Dans une France assez proche de la nôtre, un homme s'engage dans la carrière universitaire. Peu motivé par l'enseignement, il s'attend à une vie ennuyeuse mais calme, protégée des grands drames historiques. Cependant les forces en jeu dans le pays ont fissuré le système politique jusqu'à provoquer son effondrement. Cette implosion sans soubresauts, sans vraie révolution, se développe comme un mauvais rêve. L'auteur nous entraîne sur un terrain ambigu et glissant ; son regard sur notre civilisation vieillissante fait coexister dans ce roman les intuitions poétiques, les effets comiques, une mélancolie fataliste. Ce livre est une fable politique et morale.
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Dans une France assez proche de la nôtre, un homme s'engage dans la carrière universitaire. Peu motivé par l'enseignement, il s'attend à une vie ennuyeuse mais calme, protégée des grands drames historiques. Cependant les forces en jeu dans le pays ont fissuré le système politique jusqu'à provoquer son effondrement. Cette implosion sans soubresauts, sans vraie révolution, se développe comme un mauvais rêve. L'auteur nous entraîne sur un terrain ambigu et glissant ; son regard sur notre civilisation vieillissante fait coexister dans ce roman les intuitions poétiques, les effets comiques, une mélancolie fataliste. Ce livre est une fable politique et morale.
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Beginning with Venusia (2005) and continuing with Mercury Station (2009), Mark von Schlegell's System Series has moved backward in time, investigating the contours of time, memory, perception, and control in the inter-planetary system that emerge off-world in the twenty-second and twenty-third centuries during Earth's full collapse. In the latest installment, Sundogz,(...)
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Beginning with Venusia (2005) and continuing with Mercury Station (2009), Mark von Schlegell's System Series has moved backward in time, investigating the contours of time, memory, perception, and control in the inter-planetary system that emerge off-world in the twenty-second and twenty-third centuries during Earth's full collapse. In the latest installment, Sundogz,(...)
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Sundogz
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Beginning with Venusia (2005) and continuing with Mercury Station (2009), Mark von Schlegell's System Series has moved backward in time, investigating the contours of time, memory, perception, and control in the inter-planetary system that emerge off-world in the twenty-second and twenty-third centuries during Earth's full collapse. In the latest installment, Sundogz, set among the water-rich moons of planet Uranus, extremist astro-marine "spacers" have constructed an aquatic world of extraordinary scope and ambition, entirely invisible to the System at large. The Good Fortune, a spaceship en route to Moon Miranda, the most beautiful and troublesome of Uranus's satellites, sends out a party to explore rumors of a secret fish farm in the ring. Now the "Oan Bubble" must attempt to survive its discovery.
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Beginning with Venusia (2005) and continuing with Mercury Station (2009), Mark von Schlegell's System Series has moved backward in time, investigating the contours of time, memory, perception, and control in the inter-planetary system that emerge off-world in the twenty-second and twenty-third centuries during Earth's full collapse. In the latest installment, Sundogz, set among the water-rich moons of planet Uranus, extremist astro-marine "spacers" have constructed an aquatic world of extraordinary scope and ambition, entirely invisible to the System at large. The Good Fortune, a spaceship en route to Moon Miranda, the most beautiful and troublesome of Uranus's satellites, sends out a party to explore rumors of a secret fish farm in the ring. Now the "Oan Bubble" must attempt to survive its discovery.
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Architecture and the imaginary
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Primitive literacy is redundant. Mere words are expelled. We inaugurate a world of pure presence. The mind, that intrudes itself between ourselves and those memories too terrible to know, must keep us moving beyond the grasp of their claw. To control the flow, it will be necessary that political order be imposed always temporarily. The state shall enjoy direct, creative(...)
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Primitive literacy is redundant. Mere words are expelled. We inaugurate a world of pure presence. The mind, that intrudes itself between ourselves and those memories too terrible to know, must keep us moving beyond the grasp of their claw. To control the flow, it will be necessary that political order be imposed always temporarily. The state shall enjoy direct, creative(...)
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Venusia
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Primitive literacy is redundant. Mere words are expelled. We inaugurate a world of pure presence. The mind, that intrudes itself between ourselves and those memories too terrible to know, must keep us moving beyond the grasp of their claw. To control the flow, it will be necessary that political order be imposed always temporarily. The state shall enjoy direct, creative access to the real.
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Primitive literacy is redundant. Mere words are expelled. We inaugurate a world of pure presence. The mind, that intrudes itself between ourselves and those memories too terrible to know, must keep us moving beyond the grasp of their claw. To control the flow, it will be necessary that political order be imposed always temporarily. The state shall enjoy direct, creative access to the real.
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February 2005
February 2005
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The Nose, one of Nikolai Gogol's most important and influential tales, is now available in this volume illustrated with photographs by British artist Rick Buckley. Taking on a life of its own, the nose of a St Petersburg official leaves its rightful place to cause havoc in the city. The novel ends with the author seemingly addressing the reader directly, refusing to(...)
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The Nose, one of Nikolai Gogol's most important and influential tales, is now available in this volume illustrated with photographs by British artist Rick Buckley. Taking on a life of its own, the nose of a St Petersburg official leaves its rightful place to cause havoc in the city. The novel ends with the author seemingly addressing the reader directly, refusing to(...)
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The nose
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The Nose, one of Nikolai Gogol's most important and influential tales, is now available in this volume illustrated with photographs by British artist Rick Buckley. Taking on a life of its own, the nose of a St Petersburg official leaves its rightful place to cause havoc in the city. The novel ends with the author seemingly addressing the reader directly, refusing to resolve the story he has narrated. Written between 1835 and 1836, and a key precursor to absurdist and Magical Realist strains in 20th-century fiction, this fantastic tale is extended in Buckley's photographs, which document a Gogol-inspired street intervention for which he fixed plaster noses on to buildings all over London.
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The Nose, one of Nikolai Gogol's most important and influential tales, is now available in this volume illustrated with photographs by British artist Rick Buckley. Taking on a life of its own, the nose of a St Petersburg official leaves its rightful place to cause havoc in the city. The novel ends with the author seemingly addressing the reader directly, refusing to resolve the story he has narrated. Written between 1835 and 1836, and a key precursor to absurdist and Magical Realist strains in 20th-century fiction, this fantastic tale is extended in Buckley's photographs, which document a Gogol-inspired street intervention for which he fixed plaster noses on to buildings all over London.
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The overcoat
The overcoat
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This edition of Nikolai Gogol's The Overcoat (a short story originally published in 1842) includes newly commissioned artwork from Sarah Dobai. This influential story - in which a lowly government clerk's life is briefly transformed by the extravagant purchase of a new coat - has been adapted into a variety of stage and film interpretations. Artist, filmmaker and(...)
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This edition of Nikolai Gogol's The Overcoat (a short story originally published in 1842) includes newly commissioned artwork from Sarah Dobai. This influential story - in which a lowly government clerk's life is briefly transformed by the extravagant purchase of a new coat - has been adapted into a variety of stage and film interpretations. Artist, filmmaker and(...)
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The overcoat
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This edition of Nikolai Gogol's The Overcoat (a short story originally published in 1842) includes newly commissioned artwork from Sarah Dobai. This influential story - in which a lowly government clerk's life is briefly transformed by the extravagant purchase of a new coat - has been adapted into a variety of stage and film interpretations. Artist, filmmaker and photographer Sarah Dobai responds to the story's preoccupation with material desire and illusion; the text is printed alongside her photographs of shop windows in London and Paris, showing ready-made still lifes of merchandise and mannequins in window displays.
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This edition of Nikolai Gogol's The Overcoat (a short story originally published in 1842) includes newly commissioned artwork from Sarah Dobai. This influential story - in which a lowly government clerk's life is briefly transformed by the extravagant purchase of a new coat - has been adapted into a variety of stage and film interpretations. Artist, filmmaker and photographer Sarah Dobai responds to the story's preoccupation with material desire and illusion; the text is printed alongside her photographs of shop windows in London and Paris, showing ready-made still lifes of merchandise and mannequins in window displays.
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The latest book by acclaimed novelist and artist Douglas Coupland—named after a phenomenon in digital archiving describing the way digital files spontaneously decompose—combines fictional short stories with essays, addressing subjects such as the death of the middle class, and the rise of the Internet and its impact on our lives.
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The latest book by acclaimed novelist and artist Douglas Coupland—named after a phenomenon in digital archiving describing the way digital files spontaneously decompose—combines fictional short stories with essays, addressing subjects such as the death of the middle class, and the rise of the Internet and its impact on our lives.
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Bit rot
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The latest book by acclaimed novelist and artist Douglas Coupland—named after a phenomenon in digital archiving describing the way digital files spontaneously decompose—combines fictional short stories with essays, addressing subjects such as the death of the middle class, and the rise of the Internet and its impact on our lives.
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The latest book by acclaimed novelist and artist Douglas Coupland—named after a phenomenon in digital archiving describing the way digital files spontaneously decompose—combines fictional short stories with essays, addressing subjects such as the death of the middle class, and the rise of the Internet and its impact on our lives.
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October 2015
October 2015
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Architecture and the imaginary
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Autour de quelques photographes dits «humanistes» devenus très célèbres (Izis, Boubat, Brassaï, Doisneau, Ronis...), plus d'une soixantaine de reporters-illustrateurs de grand talent ont œuvré et méritent d'être à l'honneur. Qu'ils se nomment Edith Gérin, Janine Niépce ou Sabine Weiss, Marcel Bovis, René-Jacques, Jean Dieuzaide, Jean Marquis, Jean-Philippe Charbonnier,(...)
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Autour de quelques photographes dits «humanistes» devenus très célèbres (Izis, Boubat, Brassaï, Doisneau, Ronis...), plus d'une soixantaine de reporters-illustrateurs de grand talent ont œuvré et méritent d'être à l'honneur. Qu'ils se nomment Edith Gérin, Janine Niépce ou Sabine Weiss, Marcel Bovis, René-Jacques, Jean Dieuzaide, Jean Marquis, Jean-Philippe Charbonnier,(...)
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Theory of Photography
Theory of Photography
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December 2006, Paris
December 2006, Paris
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La photographie humaniste, 1945-1968 : autour d'Izis, Boubat. Brassaï, Doisneau, Ronis...
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Autour de quelques photographes dits «humanistes» devenus très célèbres (Izis, Boubat, Brassaï, Doisneau, Ronis...), plus d'une soixantaine de reporters-illustrateurs de grand talent ont œuvré et méritent d'être à l'honneur. Qu'ils se nomment Edith Gérin, Janine Niépce ou Sabine Weiss, Marcel Bovis, René-Jacques, Jean Dieuzaide, Jean Marquis, Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, Léon Herschtritt, Jean-Louis Swiners, ou encore Eric Schwab, André Papillon..., ils ont en commun d'avoir nourri de leurs images le paysage visuel des Français de l'après-guerre. La Bibliothèque nationale de France peut se prévaloir de conserver la mémoire de bon nombre de ces auteurs, grâce au dépôt légal ainsi qu'à des dons généreux, auxquels elle rend hommage dans une exposition montrant les différents volets de leur activité et de leur production. On découvrira ainsi de nombreuses pièces illustrées par leurs soins ouvrages et magazines, mais aussi affiches, calendriers, agendas, dossiers pédagogiques, présents dans les fonds de la Bibliothèque. Les photographes «humanistes» ont contribué à construire une iconographie nationale, avec ses lieux pittoresques et ses archétypes sociaux mais aussi à dénoncer les réalités de l'époque - misère des banlieues, crise du logement, menaces de guerre - et à relayer luttes et espoirs de l'après-guerre. Grâce à leur participation à de grandes revues internationales (Life, Camera, Du...), ils ont aussi élargi l'horizon de leurs contemporains. Enfin ils ont en commun d'avoir développé «un imaginaire d'après nature» - selon l'expression d'Henri Cartier-Bresson - que l'on peut également qualifier de «réalisme poétique». La figure de l'homme occupe une place centrale dans cette dimension onirique et merveilleuse du réel, révélée par la photographie à l'occasion de riches coopérations avec les écrivains, poètes ou chansonniers de l'époque. Ce sont ces différents aspects que l'exposition et l'ouvrage qui l'accompagne se proposent d'aborder, afin d'élargir et d'enrichir le point de vue actuel sur la photographie «humaniste», trop souvent restreinte à quelques noms et quelques œuvres.
La photographie humaniste, 1945-1968 : autour d'Izis, Boubat. Brassaï, Doisneau, Ronis...
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December 2006, Paris
December 2006, Paris
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Theory of Photography
Theory of Photography
